SharePoint/Office 365 Dev Patterns and Practices (PnP) November 2016 release is out with new contributions from community for the community. This post contains all the details related on what was included with the release and what else has been happening in the PnP world during the past month.

This is the recording of PnP monthly community call from Tuesday 8th of November. PnP monthly communnity calls are for covering changes in the PnP initiative during past month, provide credits for all the community contributors and for demonstrating new capabilities with community demos.

The Outlook team is introducing a new Office 365 service called Outlook Customer Manager. Outlook Customer Manager gives you a complete view of your interactions with each customer, helps you track tasks and deals in progress, and surfaces timely reminders.

Through the November 2016 Public Update for SharePoint Server 2016, several new features are being delivered based on customer feedback, extending support for hybrid scenarios and developer needs, including MinRole enhancements to support small and medium-sized farms, Custom tiles in the SharePoint app launcher, SharePoint hybrid auditing unified across site collections on-premises and in Office 365 and many others.

In this webcast, the PnP team covered considerations around multi-view web parts, where the presentation layer is changed based on the status of the web part. Considerations are being also demonstrated with a client-side web part built with Angular 1.x.

SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP) – PnP Core, PnP PowerShell and provisioning engine Special Interest Group (SIG) weekly call recording for the 16th of November meeting is now available from PnP YouTube channel at http://aka.ms/sppnp-videos.

The new Graph explorer has autocomplete, so as soon as the user starts typing, the explorer presents the options for continued queries. Learn about this and many other cool functionalities from this blog post.

Episode 82 – November 8, 2016

SharePoint team announced availability of new SharePoint Client Side Object Model (CSOM) version targeted for the Office 365 or more specifically for SharePoint and Project Online. This release again contains few updates on the existing SharePoint CSOM assemblies and some maintenance changes.

Microsoft Teams is the chat-based workspace in Office 365 that helps teams achieve more together. Microsoft Mechanics catches up with Dan Stevenson, principal group program manager for Microsoft Teams, who demonstrates step by step how to get started—from user experiences for chat and collaboration to what Office 365 administrators need to do to enable and manage Microsoft Teams.

October 31, 2016 Microsoft marks general availability of Microsoft Flow and PowerApps, which enable people to automate workflows and quickly build custom apps that suit their specific needs and both products support integration with SharePoint.

In this PnP Webcast, Microsoft concentrated on covering sample web part with search capability. This search web part is built using React and implements Flux pattern for the cross-component communications in React.

Environments for PowerApps are spaces to store, manage, and share your organization’s business data, apps, and flows. They also serve as containers to separate apps that may have different roles, security requirements, or target audiences.

Microsoft is releasing the Microsoft Flow Admin Center which will enable administrators to create Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies that define which services business data can be shared with when using Flow.